TWORK...TWITTER TWEETS AT WORK

HOW I TWEET:

1. Answer the question "What is INTERESTING?" rather than "What are you doing?"
2. Use your Follow Friends to filter the most relevant Tweets for your interests.
3. Retweet so that anyone Following me can use me as a filter for interesting news.

Once your Twitter account has "hundreds" of Followers, it's interesting that more and more Followers start Following you non-stop after a certain point, eh?

HOW I FIND NEWS:

My Friends' Tweets have acted like a springboard to a wealth of informative sites.
Hashtags can be used like bookmarks when I Retweet these informative sites, and I can go back through and connect these to my own work;
if I'm lucky, by the time I go back to the hashtag, others have added similar Tweets under the same hashtag.

HOW TO GET RELEVANT FOLLOWERS

If you are promoting your business, you don't really want "anyone" to Follow your business' Twitter activity. You want relevant Followers that are actually interested in becoming a customer someday, right?

For marketing purposes, Tweets need to be sent in volleys of three to eight at a time, as close to each other as possible (you might consider using 3-8 multiple Tabs in your browser to achieve this).
One pattern that still seems to attract new Followers to you:

Tweet 1: interesting business news
Tweet 2: relevant information that is Trending at the moment
Tweet 3: your advertisement, promotion, or marketing
Tweet 4: interesting news
Tweet 5: relevant information that is Trending with a Hashtag at the moment
Tweet 6: your coupon (ala Dell)
Tweet 7: personal insight
Tweet 8: interesting business news

RESULTS: This model is used by people that perform SEO and SEM, and using it will give you at least the same number of interested Followers as the number of your Tweets...

IMPORTANT: Most of your Tweets ought to include links for full articles or for marketing links.
Marketing links need to go to "painless" actions...
think email subscriptions, automatic enrollments, satisfaction guarantees, and discounted payment pages with items already "in the cart."

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Best articles to read for your business...

Top 3 most read articles of 2007

Most popular articles, as voted by avangate.com readers during 2007

This is a list featuring top 3 articles of each section on our site. We are very pleased to see that articles dedicated to Internet Marketing, Website Usability, Software Business and Affiliate Marketing have grown substantially during the past year, proportionally with your interest for this field.
This list was made up according to the traffic received for each section in part. What follows are the top 12 most popular Avangate articles during 2007. We thank you for your interest and we will do our best for 2008 in order to provide you with quality content.

A. Internet Marketing

1. 68 Online SEO Tools and Resources
   May 30, 2007
   A compiled list of free online Search Engine Optimization tools to check and use for your current web site in order to improve your rankings in the search engines. Feel free to check and use them. [ read full article ]
   
2. 50 Press Release Submission Websites
   April 26, 2007
   This is a list with the most important websites where you can submit your press releases. There are 50 free and fee-based websites through which you will improve your awareness online. The list is ordered by Google PageRank and the links lead to "Add/Submit a Press Release" or "Register" page. [ read full article ]
   
3. Top 50 Free Blog Directories
   August 27, 2007
   In order to promote your business, gain more exposure and increase targeted traffic, we created a list with the best blog directories where you can submit for free your blog. The first classification criterion is Google PageRank followed by Alexa Ranking. The blog directories are listed with links to "Submit blog" or "Register" page. [ read full article ]
   

B. Website Usability

1. Choosing the Right Colors for Your Web Site
   March 21, 2007
   How to choose the right colors for your website in order to keep visitors browsing the pages? Read some tips to keep in mind when defining the color scheme. [ read full article ]
   
2. 50 Online Accessibility and Usability Tools
   June 15, 2007
   Usability and accessibility go hand in hand with conversion rates, customer satisfaction, targeted traffic and the list can go on. A list providing 50 useful online tools to check your web site usability and accessibility. [ read full article ]
   
3. How to Make your URLs SEO Friendly
   April 27, 2007
   URL rewriting can bring you on the right track in the race for Search Engine Optimization (combined with other techniques that you may use for this purpose). The other strong reason for URL rewriting would be the increase in usability for web users, and in maintainability for webmasters. [ read full article ]
   

C. Software Business

1. Cross-sell, Up-sell, Boost Your Software Sales
   February 09, 2007
   How to increase software sales, cross-selling, up selling, selling technique that brings up to the customers' attention products or services complementary to the ones they intended to buy in the first place. [ read full article ]
   
2. Getting Ready to Participate at a Software Conference
   October 19, 2007
   Software Business Conferences are a great opportunity of establishing connections and meeting face-to-face clients you already have but have never had the chance to personally talk to. If such an event might have seemed rather difficult to prepare, you weren't far from the truth. Software conferences need as much preparation as any other conference. But all your efforts will be rewarded. [ read full article ]
   
3. How to Name a Software Product
   November 08, 2007
   The name of the software product is an introducing element, the best way to make your business appear in the SERPs and the differentiating element from competitors. An article regarding the steps that any software producer has to take in order to choose the most suitable name for his product. [ read full article ]
   

D. Affiliate Marketing

1. Make your Download Portal a Successful Affiliate Business
   May 03, 2007
   Most download portals nowadays are built on automatic content feeders, the so-called PAD files. Obviously, importing 20-30k products automatically might be a good way to start a download portal, but then again, most download portals look and work the same, just because of that. Find out how to make your download portal different with a blog. [ read full article ]
   
2. Mistakes in Affiliate Programs
   March 28, 2007
   Affiliate marketing does not qualify as a "get-rich-quickly" scheme. Here are the most common 10 mistakes that are usually made when joining affiliate programs and advice about how to avoid them. [ read full article ]
   
3. Don't Overpay for Selling your Products. Use Affiliates
   March 16, 2007
   One way to sell online your products is by having affiliates program. Find out more about affiliates program and what the benefits of having your affiliates program are. [ read full article ]